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Originally Posted by Dutt1113
I was not at all impressed with the zalman vf900. Its not thats its not a good cooler. Its just that I didn't realize how good the stock hsf is on the 7900gtx. Anyways, I think I'm gonna put the stock hsf back on using some arctic silver 5.
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I wasn't impressed at all either. I just got mine today and put it on my x1900xtx and the temps were almost around 10c higher than the stock cooler. This is what I got when running a little BF2.....normally in 2D i'll run the stock cooler fan around 40% with the clock speeds turned down, but kept the fan and oc both the same in 2D and 3D for a comparison.
Using ATItool...
710mhz core OC
Core voltage 1.45v
Stock cooler with AS5
idle: 46c (fan 100%)
load: 78c (fan 100%)
VF900
idle: 40c (fan 100%)
load: 84c+ (fan 100%)....my monitors would actually black out because of my OC becoming unstable, but i could still hear sounds.
I know the VF900 was making good contact with the core because it got very hot to the touch, but it's almost like the fan on it couldn't cool it off fast enough. And my case has pretty good air flow through it. I ended up putting the stock cooler back on.